Modular and mobile waste and/or hazardous liquid containment and collection shower system

Abstract

A waste water and hazardous chemical collection system is provided. The system includes a bottom pan having a plurality of vertically disposed walls, a multitude of outwardly horizontally projecting ledges and a plurality of downwardly depending lips. Each pan further includes a drainage waffle inserted within said pan. A work surface is applied to a top surface of said drainage waffle. A plurality of holes is formed in said work surface permitting any liquids that make contact to the work surface to drain there through and into an area of the bottom pan. A pump is connected to said pan for withdrawing liquids therefrom. The system includes a water source for each pan thereby creating a shower system.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] 1. Field of Invention [0002] The present invention relates to hazardous and / or waste liquid collection and containment. More particularly, it relates to a modular and mobile shower system for capturing, containing and collecting hazardous liquids and / or waste water resulting from leaks or from a rinsing procedure of people, machines or other objects that emit or have adhered thereto, substances that are hazardous to the environment if allowed to run-off. [0003] 2. Description of the Prior Art [0004] Hazardous liquid and waste water collection is known in the prior art. Due to rising concerns that the environment is becoming polluted at an alarming rate by hazardous chemicals, governments, both State and Federal, and those in other countries have begun mandating that water runoff from shower and rinsing procedures be contained and collected for proper disposable to avoid further contamination of the environment. For instance, the simple process of c...

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Benefits of technology

[0015] Although the preferred embodiment for the present invention is a shower system, alternate uses for the pan can satisfy needs and deficiencies seen in the prior art. For example, the modular pans can be employed in the food industry underneath racks in refrigerators, freezers and meat lockers to capture any liquids spilling from said racks thereby avoiding contamination of the food contained therein. This would be most useful in the event of a power outrage to these food containment refrigeration syste

Problems solved by technology

This waste water is no longer allowed to simply enter the sewer system or run off into the underground aquifer or nearest body of water.

However, if the needs of the user are mobile, or if the apparatus needs to be expanded, due to the object to be rinsed being larger than what the apparatus can handle, a problem arises.

It is not easily modifiable.

On the other hand, this system is not easily made mobile nor does it have the ability to be modular without making alterations to the overall design of the device once constructed.

Alterations can be made, but requires an increase in overhead costs and a delay in use of the apparatus thereby temporarily disabling the ability to generate a stream of income from said apparatus.

Other problems with hazardous liquid and waste water containment and collection have also recently arisen as to wars, crime, terrorism and environmental accidents.

In particular, it is not uncommon for businesses, public facilities and land areas to be exposed or infected to deadly biological or chemical substances that are extremely hazardous to remove.

However, to allow the rinse water to simply run off and into ground or sewer would be self-defeating and negate the reason for cleaning the affected area in the first place.

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